<div dir="ltr">Greenville, NC has had bots of similar capability for a while, mostly just serving the local university's area.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 15, 2026 at 12:49 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg7819236838737026834"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_7819236838737026834WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Over two decades ago, we had discussions in this forum on grocery delivery bots.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">I went to the first DARPA challenge in 2004, where the game was to race completely autonomous vehicles on desert roads (in Arizona.) None of the cars finished that year, but not long after that, several of them did. It was perfectly clear that eventually self-drivers would be used as delivery vehicles.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">The next town up the street has done it. They have delivery bots for the short runs. The restaurant which launched this week reports so far no theft or vandalism.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Granted, Fremont is a nice town with very little crime problems, but… they are demonstrating that the system works.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">They are claiming this rig can legally go on bike paths and sidewalks, but I disagree on the second part of that. Fremont has street-adjacent bike paths, as seen in the photo below. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><img width="518" height="386" style="width: 5.3958in; height: 4.0208in;" id="m_7819236838737026834Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:ii_19cf26734a55b006a1"></span><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">The article claims this rig can go 20 miles per hour.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">OK then.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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